Sports and faith have been around since the beginning of mankind. What and how we play often mirrors what and how we believe and vice versa.
In the USA, football has overtaken baseball as the national past time in the sports arena. And football has also, much like baseball, become an idol for many, promising riches and fame that is both fleeting and false.
It is my contention that football, more so than any other sport, has at it’s heart Christian ideals and theology, but like many other concepts, ideas, and tools in our country, it has become an idol for the many.
It is also my contention that football is a Christian good for young men and older boys.
This blog is an attempt to explain how football (and sports in general) and Christianity are closely related. This blog is also an attempt to bring back to center the basic concepts of football from their idolatrous abuses. Football and Christianity can be excellent partners in explaining practical Christian living to young men and can also explain American Christianity.
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